Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 305, Decatur, Adams County, 29 December 1947 — Page 6

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Chicago Cards Defeat Eagles For Pro Title Chicago, Dec. 29 — (UP) — It was too bad old Charley Bidwill couldn’t live to see it, but the Chicago Cardinals, the team he assembled with the aid of a fat and quick-opening wallet finally owned tull title today of the National League Football championship. Bidwill died on April 19, shortly after his greatest achievement, which was spiriting Charley Trippi, the Georgia all-American halfback away from the New York Yankees of the rival all-America conference, and it was significant that Trippi was a big star in yesterday’s 28 to 21 playoff victory over the Philadelphia Eagles. A hardy gathering of 30,759 fans, who sat in 28-degree weather watched the teams battle on the hardfrozen turf of Comiskey Park in tennis sneakers instead of the usual cleated football shoes. The Eagles started out by using another device to combat the slippery footing, they had filed ths cleats on their shoes to razor sharpness, but after two five yard penalties for use of ‘‘illegal equipment” they switched to the tennis shoes. The Cardinals were the pre-game favorites and they won without too much difficulty in a game in which 17 playoff records either were equalled or surpassed. Trippi. who signed with the Cardinals for one of the highest salaries ever paid* in professional football, made two of the four Chicago touchdowns while his running mate, Elmer Angsman, ex-Notre Dame star, made the other two. It was a personal triumph, too, for coach Jimmy Conzelman, the piano virtuoso who pounds the ivories with equal aplomb and with similar acclaim in concert hall or tap room. Conzelman, who gave up a lifetime job as football coach at Washington university in St. Louis to take over the fortunes of the chronically irregular Cardinals, finally got them to the western champ ionship by beating Chicago’s longestablished favorite team, the bold bad Bears of the midway in the western* division payoff game. The hard-running of Trlppi and Angsman saved the day for the Cardinals, who would have had a very difficult time of it otherwise since their own pass attack was practically nil and Tommy Thompson, the Eagle tosser was having a record-setting day for himself. Thompson set two records. He made 44 throws, surpassing the previous playoff mark of 33 set by Sammy Baugh of Washington in 1937. Thompson completed 27, breaking the record of 22 completions set by Baugh in 1937. Thompson’s heaves gained a total of 297 yards, but his best efforts were in vain. Trippi dashed 44 yards for the

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Week's Schedule Os Adams County Basketball Teams Tuesday Hartford at Roll. Thursday Tourney at Bluffton (Yellow Jackets. - Berne, Bluffton and New Haven.) Friday Yellow Jackets at Warsaw. Monroe at Pleasant Mills. Monmouth at Geneva. Kirkland at Hartford. Saturday Fort Wayne Central Catholic at Berne. first touchdown early in the first quarter. Angsman added the second score in the second period, running 70 yards on a delayed buck. Thompson tossed two passes for 73 yards and a touchdown late in the first half to rally the Eagles, but Trippi quickly added security for the Cardinals. After Pat McHugh caught Thompson's pass for a 53 yard touchdown late in the first half, Trippi came back with a long dash soon after the intermission. He took Joe Muha's punt on the Cardinal 25 and squirmed 75 yards for a touchdown. Philadelphia pounded back to within one touchdown of the Cards again late in the third period, with Steve Van Buren scoring from the one. But halfway through the final period. Angsman clinched the game. He broke through the line and raced 70 yards to pay dirt. Philadelphia tallied once more on a score by Russ Craft, but could not catch up. z o —■ PRO BASKETBALL National League Saturday Anderson 64, Rochester 59. Oshkosh 51, Sheboygan 49. Minneapolis 55, Toledo 52. Syracuse 64. Indianapolis 53. Sunday Fort Wayne 51, Oshkosh 41. Anderson 74, Flint 71. Trl-Cities 53, Syracuse 43. Minneapolis 58, Indianapolis 48. Sheboygan 59, Toledo 50. 0 COLLEGE BASKETBALL Ohio State 68, Washington 60. California 59, Minnesota 35. Bradley 72, Denver 54. Michigan State 57, Wayne 55. Niagara 46, Southern California 43. Temple 73, Dartmouth 54. 0 Study Purchase Os Abandoned Building Bedford, Ind., Dec. 29 —(UP) — Purchase of the abandoned Lawrence county infirmary building was being considered today by a Nazarene church group and the National Grandmothers’ club. Both groups wanted the 51-room brick structure as a home for aged members of their organizations.

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DASKEmWL Standing W L Pct. Hartford 8 1 .889 Commodores 7 2 .778 Yellow Jackets 5 3 .625 Kirkland 6 4 .600 Monmouth 6 4 .600 Berne 4 4 .500 Geneva 4 5 .444 Monroe 3 6 .333 Jefferson 2 7 .222 Pleasant Mills 1 8 .111 —oOo — The holiday season is prov- j ing no holiday to most of the Adams county high school basketball teams. Six of the county’s 10 teams had games last week, and only two of the quintets will not be in action this week. —oOo — Principal attraction of the week will be the annual four-team blind tournament at Bluffton Thursday, New Years day. Teams involved are the Decatur Yellow Jackets, Berne, Bluffton and New Haven. New Haven is the defending champion. Draw for the tourney will be made at 1 p.m. Thursday, with the first game at 2 o’clock. The afternoon losers will meet in a consolation tilt at 7 p.m., followed by the afternoon winners in the battle for the tourney crown. —oOo — The New Haven Bulldogs likely will go into the holiday meet as the favorites. The Bulldogs have defeated both the Decatur Yellow Jackets and the Berne Bears, while Decatur and Berne have both defated Bluffton. All these games, however, have been close, and a wide open tourney is likely to result. Word has been received from Bluffton that 400 sason tickets, returned from the competing schools, have been placed on sale at the K. B. Skiles store in that city. All tickets not sold as season tickets will be placed on sale as single session tickets at the gym the day of the tourney.

Decatur’s Yellow Jackets have a mighty tough row to hoe this week. Following their two games in Thursday’s tourney, the Jackets will travel to Warsaw Friday night to meet the Tigers in a Northeastern Indiana conference battle. —oOo — The county-leading Hartford Gorillas, carrying a seven-game winning streak, will close out the books on 1947 basketball Tuesday night, traveling to Blackford county to meet the Roll Red Raiders. — oOo — Three games are on tap Friday in addition to the Yellow Jackets at Warsaw. The Monroe Bearkatz will play at Pleasant Mills. Hartford will entertain the Kirkland Kangaroos, and the Monmouth Eagles will travel to Geneva. In Saturday’s lone contest, the Berne Bears will entertain Fort Wayne Central Catholic at Berne. —oOo — The Decatur Commodores and Jefferson Warriors are the only teams idle this week. The Commodores will be idle until the county tournament in this city January 8, 9 and 10, while the Warriors will play off their postponed tilt with Madison of Jay county at the Berne auditorium January 6. The Commodores scheduled game at Monroeville January 7 has been postponed to January 28 because of the near conflict with the county tourney. —oOo— Competing with the fans’ interest in the New Years tourney this week will be the drawing of the schedule for the annual Adams county tournament, which will be held at the Yellow Jackets gym in this city Thursday, Friday and Saturday of next week. The schedule will be drawn Saturday morning at the office of L. L. Hann, county school superintendent. All teams of the county, with the exception of the Yellow Jackets and Berne, will compete, the Decatur Commodores entering the meet this year for the first time. —oOo— Getting, veteran Monmouth forward, by counting 20 points last week against Willshire, has taken over the leadership in the county scoring race. Getting has tallied 137 points in 10 games for an average of 13.7 points per game. M. Habegger, of Monroe, leader for several weeks, dropped to second place as the Bearkatz were one place as the Bearkatz were —oOo — The 10 top scorers, with games played, total points and average points per game, are as follows: Name GTP Ave. Getting, Mmth Iff 137 13.7 M. Habegger, Monr. .. 9 121 13.4

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Smitley, Jeff 9 104 11.6 Wall, Jeff 9 102 11.3 Strayer, P. M 9 101 11.2 Kruetzman. Mmth. .. 10 100 10. Liechty, Berne 8 99 12.4 Moser, Hart 9 97 19.8 Wilder, Comm 9 93 10.3 Pyle, Gen. 9 86 9.6 —oOo — Results one year ago this week: Roll 47, Hartford 37. Monroe 40, Pleasant Mills 35. Hartford 37, Kirkland 32. Monmouth 53, Geneva 25. Alumni 58, Jefferson 47. Fort Wayne C. C. 43, Berne 31. New Years Tourney Bluffton 46. Berne 38. New Haven 34. Yellow Jackets 30. Berne 51, Yellow Jackets 29 (consolation). New Haven 46. Bluffton 44 (final, double overtime). oOo — HAPPY NEW YEAR! 0 H. S. BASKETBALL Tourney Results At South Bend Fort Wayne Central 60, South Bend Riley 39. Fort Wayne North 42, Misha' waka 39. Mishawaka 46, South Bend Riley 37 (consolation). Fort Wayne North 40, Fort Wayne Central 38 (final). At Lafayette Evansville Central 65, Lafayette Jeff 51 (final). At Crawfordsville Lebanon 41, Michigan City 40 (final). Frankfort 54, Crawfordsville 48 (consolation). At Indianapolis Peru 47. Indianapolis Howe 24. Elwood 51, Indianapolis Broad Ripple 42. Howe 42, Broad Ripple 33 (consolation). Peru 47, Elwood 38 (final). At Martinsville Martinsville 52, Seymour 39. Franklin 52, Greencastle 50 (overtime).

Cards Win N. F. L. Title 28-21 «r. l. -JMaL '""We 3k • jw - x ’; X- . ’ ’V; .■ - ', PAUL CHRISTMAN (44) (arrow), of Chicago Cardinals completes a 17 yard pass to Billy Dewell (41) in the first quarter of the battle with the Philadelphia Eagles for the National Football League Championship at Comiskey Park, Chicago. The 28 to 21 victory over the Eagles, witnessed by 35 000 fans gave the Cards their first National title in 22 years.

Seymour 57, Greencastle 35 (consolation). Franklin 45. Martinsville 40 (final). At LaPorte Rochester 41, Goshen 38. LaPorte 40, Valparaiso 22. Goshen 36. Valparaiso 28 (consolation). LaPorte 56, Rochester 45 (final). At Evansville Evansville Bosse 45, Prinseton 43. Tell City 44, Evansville Reit% 31. Reitz 68, Princeton 37 (consolation). Bosse 51, Tell City 38 (final). At Hammond Elkhart 31, Hammond 27. Hammond Clark 67, South Bend Central 51. South Bend Central 62, Hammond 51 (consolation). Elkhart 62, Hammond Clark 35 (final). At East Chicago South Bend Washington 52, Rennselaer 41. Roosevelt East Chicago 45, Portage 36. Portage 44. Rennselaer 41 (consolation). Roosevelt East Chicago 40, Washington South Bend 34 (final). At Gary Froebel 36, Tolleston 35. Mann 42, Emerson 35. Wirt 40, Roosevelt 35 (consolation). Froebel 38, Mann 35 (final). Bus Drivers Granted 10-Cent Wage Boost South Bend, Ind., Dec. 29 —(UP) — South Bend and Mishawaka bus drivers received a 10-cent hourly wage increase today as the result of arbitration board recommendation over the weekend. The pay boost, retroative to Oct. 1, will affect about 250 drivers, members of the AFL Amalgamated Street, Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employes union, and will hike their hourly pay to $l3O. o • I Trade In a Good Town — Decatur

Big Ninl Schedule To Open This Week • Chicago, Dec. 29. —(UP) —Big Nine basketball competition begins this weekend with dark-horse Illinois, one of the two undefeated clubs left in the league, now regarded as the team to beat for the conference title. The under-rated Illini, overlooked by supporters of Michigan, Minnesota and Indiana in pre- season talk, have won six games and last week twice set back Washington State, undefeated until it arrived at Champaign. Saturday, the Illini meet defending champion Wisconsin at Madison in the top league game of the week. In the second conference clash, also Saturday. Northwestern travels to Ohio State. The two conference contests share top-billing with the Indiana state tournament at Indianapolis. New Year’s night Indiana meets Notre Dame and Purdue faces Butler. The following night, Butler scraps with Indiana, and Notre Dame will play Purdue. lowa, the second undefeated club in the league, goes into the Ivy league for competition, entertaining Harvard Wednesday and Princeton Saturday. Other games this week: Monday: Yale at Northwestern, Michigan at lowa State. Tuesday: Michigan at lowa State. Wednesday: Missouri at Northwestern, Wisconsin at Marquette. Thursday: Harvard at Illinois. Saturday: Michigan at Toledo. Only two Big Nine teams played Saturday, Minnesota losing to California and Ohio State defeating: Washington.

Three Are Fined For Breaking Game Laws Three men were fined Saturday afternoon by justice of peace JToyd B. Hunter on charges of violating the state conservation laws. Otho Douglass. Fort Wayne, was fined $lO and costs, totalling $23.50, for failing to carry and produce a hunting license. Leland Miller and Wilbur J. Miller, both of Willshire,' 0., were fined sls and costs, totalling $28.50, for hunting without a license. All three were arrested in Root township by game warden Johrr Hoffacker earlier in the day. Prosecutor Myles F. Parrish represented the state. Prosecutor Parrish called attention to the severity of the punishment for violating the game laws, citing the fact that an additional $5 is added to court costs, the money going to the state conservation department; and that each animal illegally bagged may be considered a separate offense. -500 500 Believed Dead As Ship Explodes Shanghai, Dec. 29 —(UP) — Dispatches from Hankow reported today that more than 500 persons are missing and believed dead after a river steamer explosion in the Shang river, a tributary of the Yangtze, near Hankow. The explosion on the heavily loaded boat caused a fire which swept from stem to stern catching passengers asleep in their cabins about 4 a.m. Saturday, the report said. The burning ship drifted into others, setting fire to three more steamers and 10 wooden junks. Seventy bodies were recovered within 12 hours, the dispatches said. Aobut 100 survivors were picked up. 0 Trade In a Good Town —Decatur

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Fort Wayne Central Handed First Loss Indianapolis, Dec. 29 — (UP) — Indiana's Christmas holiday high school basketball weekend was as thrill-packed as any ever witnessed, but four of the state’s top schoolboy quintets had their perfect records marred in the hectic tournament battles. Gone from the undefeated ranks are Lafayette Jefferson, East Chicago Washington, Fort Wayne Central and Princeton. But Evansville Central and LaPorte, two other powerhouses, took tourney games in stride to remain among the few undefeated prep school clubs in Hoosierland. If any of the above - mentioned teams were upset, they were Fort Wayne Central and Princeton. Central. unbeaten in six previous contests and winner over city rival North Side earlier in the season, was handcuffed in the South Bend final and lost a close 40-38 decision to the North Siders. Princeton, in eighth place of the United Press statewide rankings last week, apparently suffered a case of tourney jitters. The Tigers, entered in the Evansville tourney, had troubles from the start when they fell behind Bosse of the pocket city and lost, 45-43, in the opener. They were still cold when they met Evansville Reitz in the consolation contest and went down, 68-37. The Lafayett session, featuring three undefeated clubs, proved that Evansville Central was still the team to beat. The Golden Bears dropped East Chicago Washington from the perfect - record list first, 45-38, and came back in the finale to wipe out Lafayette Jefferson’s unblemished record, 65-51. Lee Hamilton, the Bears’ six-foot-three center, fired his mates into a 29-23 halftime lead and ended the evening session with a total of 23 points. The Hammond tourney was captured by Elkhart, which knocked Hammond high out of the running in the second round and mowed down Hammond Clark in the final, 62-35. South Bend Central, the favorite to cop the blue ribbon, was victimized by Hammond Clark, 6751, in the second round, but nicked Hammond High In an overtime consolation thriller, 52-51, with Ernie Bond contributing 26 points. The Crawfordsville tourney was the most-evenly matched, three of ‘he four games being overtime battles. Lebanon, which squeezed oast Frankfort in a first-round overtime game, 43-42, repeated the performance against Michigan City in the final, 41-40. LaPorte’s Slicers had little rouble in their four-team affair, esting Rochester 56-45, and Peru lowned Central Indiana conference partner Elwood, 47-38, after the two clubs ousted Howe and Broad Tipple, the Indianapolis entrants in he capital city tourney. In other tourneys, East Chicago Toosevelt won its meet by defeating South Bend Washington, 40-34,

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